Creating a design for sections in a legend

Once you have decided the groupings that you want in the legend (see Organizing sections in a legend), you can define the font for the titles and the design for the delimiters.

  1. In the Legend Properties window, click the Structure tab.
  2. Select a section title in the Legend hierarchy box. The default section titles are Base Section, New Group, and Default Section.
  3. Enable the Show section title check box.
  4. Click the Title style button and create a title style (see Selecting a style).
  5. Click the Item text style button and create an item text style.
  6. Click the Delimiter style button and create a delimiter style.
  7. Enable one of the following Sample placement options to determine which side the samples appear in the legend:
    • Left: places the samples on the left followed by their descriptions
    • Right: places the descriptions followed by samples on the right
  8. Click Advanced and determine the position of descriptions, the size of samples, the position of section titles, and the length of delimiters. For more information, see Customizing a section layout. If you want to change the selected section or subsection title, click it and type a new title.
  9. Click OK.

See also

Setting the updating behavior

Selecting an existing quick style

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